This German vintage cast bar collection is so impressive, I thought I would share it with you guys Wouldn't we all like to own one like this ?
I see an Engelhard in there! Also a Westpac gold bar from when they used to have gold account passbooks. Have seen a 10oz one of these before.
I've come across some of these Engelhard Australia 1/10 fractional rounds 1980's I've been told ,never seen them before
Beautiful collection there...and expensive too.....Is that a 'Westpac' bank W on the top left??? Edit...Just noticed G.P mentioned the Westpac bar above.....still an awesome collection!
Its been almost ten months since that post, but I'll translate. This is for the horizontal bar on p2 of this thread. Main horizontal inscription: "Good fortune of dragon and phoenix" 30g "thousand exact" gold (equivalent to 99.9%) Dragon design above it appears to be jeweler's logo. Vertical writing on far left: Established 1846 Vertical writing on far right: 'Old Phoenix (something) Silver House'
Does anyone have more information on the Perth Mint 1oz in the bottom right of the pics (post #109). How old is this design?, are these ones collectable?? How many different cast PM 1oz are there??
Alright... How on earth did I miss this thread!!!! Wish I could get some pics of my Hereaus', when they're in a safe on the other side of the planet... its a bit tricky!!! Noticed anyone hasn't put up any of these yet... in my opinion one of the best value and readily available old-school cast bars today: Been saving like a mofo for one of their 50grammers. Saw a really nice cast Mitsubishi in a Brisbane coin shop a good 12 months ago - apparently due to the rarity of it they wanted spot + 11%. You can only imagine my response...
Wow, these particularly look interesting. I like the casing/packaging as well. PM me if you know where to get any of these today.
I loved the photos. The square-shaped ones are especially rare. I've seen some of the most interesting ones ever. It's funny how some of those photographed/scanned 10-20 g bars look as if they were huge, several kilogram-weighing bars.
Looks like both of these bars will probably be headed off to Germany very soon so I better post a few pics as it is very unlikely I will be able to source any more in the future. Probably the rarest cast bars I have come across. Lihir 25grams Gold Cast Bars. Casted from one of the earliest pours after the mine started producing gold. I could be wrong but I think most of these bars were gifted to directors of the company and major shareholders. I don't think the general public was able to buy them.
